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Writer's pictureshailesh tripathi

Satirical Verses Season 1

I woke up one day in a state of chaos. My heart was pumping at Bullet Speed and my nerves were practicing an impromptu salsa. I knew I had hit something familiar, yet new in intensity.

The complexity of the Modern World engulfs the most intelligent species on Planet. Hurricane, Tornado, or Cyclone, whatever you may term it. This havoc is the chief cause of suffering.

What matters is your mind. But do you know your mind?

How a Thought can make or break your life?

Let me recite a short poem to put you in the groove. Put on your Headphone or your evil self and hum with me.

Oh mind, Oh mind

Forever in agony, you viciously bind

Ah! The pain, the suffering, the daily grind

If only I could find a way

To reset and rewind

Oh mind, Oh mind

What power do you hold within

A creator and A destroyer

Abyss and Infinity

Sometimes, you seem so pretty

But mostly, you make us lose our sanity

By amplifying images as vanity.


This wasn`t exactly Shakespeare's sonnet but I hope you get my point

Let us dive deeper into this abyss of Truth.




Chapter 2:

End of All Suffering

My Goal in life is to smile at Strangers. On most occasions, you meet kind reciprocation while at times, you do get a cold response. Life is a strange reverberation of undulating emotions and experiences that catch your neck.

Some stay in your neck as an Albatross others vanish in the thick polluted air of the city. I walk past the familiar scenes of my neighborhood yet every day gives me new stories. People are funny but they don`t know it. You can only capture true humor when you observe from a curious eye. There is Saint Cobbler named Dayanand in our Town. Last night, a horrific hurricane destroyed his workplace.

I must say, though it was only 3 feet by 3 feet in dimension the space was artistically aligned with an Idol, an incense stick, and a decorated cushion. Each morning, this graceful being used to bring one Vadapav and a flower to start his business. But Alas! Nature hits the poor, the hardest.

Dayanand despite watching his workplace in ruins, still managed to ignite the ravenous ruin and make it graceful by his sheer will to survive another day with a smile and a heart. Such are real inspirations, I see on the road.

So what exactly is suffering? Is it all in the mind or there is a real pain to endure? When do achieve eternal peace or is it just a socially constructed term like Democracy?

As I glance further into the abyss. My imagination gets the better of me and I pen down my heart`s yearning into another poem.


Stepping into the Unknown


The Dichotomy of life

Is vivid in every essence of existence

The Sun and The Moon

The Dry and The Storms

The Black and The White

Darkness and Light

Yet with honest inquiry

One Opens a majestic pathway

Either be Dull and Stay

The air feels exhausting,

The Greens look lesser than a Green

Slowly but surely losing its sheen

You Wonder, where is the real beauty

It is, in an exploration of the Unknown

New discoveries …


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